No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward.

Then you are a poet?' she asked, fingering the flyer in her pocket.'No not at all, ' he waved his hand. 'I am merely a character in a poem.

Time could heal, but it wouldn't make wrongs go away. Time came back like a reminder. Time folded with memory. In a moment, everything could fold itself up, and time stand still.

Just cuz you get to the end doesn’t mean you know what happened.

Even if you have to die tomorrow

The biggest mistake to me is complacency.

When I watch films or tv that I've done, I get very restless and tend to not sit still.

I would like to see more successful business people run for office.

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.

Progress may feel more like loss than gain.

Human beings are innately loving beings. When we fail to love, it is because an element of ignorance has intruded into our experience, submerging our natural impulse to love.

Whenever I have to do something, I try to minimise the time it takes me to do it. I just cannot wait.

Happiness is getting a brown gravy stain on a brown dress.